# Lead AI Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Purchase, New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $161,000 - $266,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to join a small, focused AI technology team led by one of Mastercard's Distinguished Engineers. The team will initially focus on delivering agentic technologies such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) at scale and the use of open weight AI models.

The Lead AI Engineer will design and build platform capabilities that let Mastercard adopt MCP and open weight models safely and at scale. The role involves working alongside senior engineers who set the broader technical direction.

Key responsibilities:

- Contribute to the design and build of components of Mastercard's enterprise MCP deployment

- Implement identity, authentication, and authorization patterns for MCP

- Help set and apply standards for internal and external MCP servers

- Build and operate open weight model serving

- Develop evaluation and testing tooling for open weight models

- Apply MLOps practices to keep the platform reliable

- Partner with central security, privacy, legal, and AI governance teams

- Stay current with new developments in MCP, open weight models, and related agentic protocols

Requirements:

- Strong knowledge of modern AI technology, including LLMs and foundation models

- Good software engineering skills, with experience writing production-quality code

- Solid MLOps experience, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability

- Good cloud platform knowledge, preferably AWS

- Practical experience with model evaluation and serving open weight models

- Working knowledge of API security, identity, and access control

- Awareness of governance context shaping enterprise AI

- Clear communication and collaboration skills

In terms of compensation, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions. Mastercard benefits for full-time employees generally include insurance, flexible spending accounts, paid leaves, and a 401k with a company match.

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## Skills

### Required
- AI
- LLMs
- foundation models
- MLOps
- CI/CD
- infrastructure-as-code
- observability
- cloud platforms
- API security
- identity and access control

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Databricks

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